Do Premenopausal Women with Major Depression Have Low Bone Mineral Density? A 36-Month Prospective Study

• Giovanni Cizza ,

  * E-mail: cizzag@intra.niddk.nih.gov

  Affiliation Section on Neuroendocrinology of Obesity, National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Sima Mistry,

  Affiliation Tulane University Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Vi T. Nguyen,

  Affiliation Section on Neuroendocrinology of Obesity, National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Farideh Eskandari,

  Affiliation Section on Neuroendocrinology of Obesity, National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Pedro Martinez,

  Affiliation Behavioral Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Sara Torvik,

  Affiliation Section on Neuroendocrinology of Obesity, National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• James C. Reynolds,

  Affiliation Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Philip W. Gold,

  Affiliation Behavioral Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Ninet Sinai,

  Affiliation Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Gyorgy Csako,

  Affiliation Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• for the POWER Study Group